Brexit could bungle an accidental victory if 1.5 million young people currently not on the electoral register fail to register to vote by June 7, warned Ed Miliband.

The former Labour leader who was destined to become Prime Minister until an astonishing electoral collapse, said in addition to the 1.5 million 18-24-year-olds missing from the register, there are two million aged between 25 and 35 also absent from the list.

Potential voters have only until June 7 to register, or they will be denied the opportunity to cast their ballot on June 23.

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Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband, pictured today, warned Brexit could win if young people do not register to vote

He said 3.5 million people aged between 18 and 35 were absent from the electoral register

The Brexit camp could be handed accidental victory if millions of young voters missing from the electoral roll fail to register, ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband is warning.

Mr Miliband is issuing a 'call to arms' aimed at pro-European voters who only have until June 7 to register for the right to take part in the first EU referendum for more than 40 years.

The intervention came as David Cameron indicated he still regards Boris Johnson as a 'substantial' potential future successor, despite the former London mayor's increasingly bitter, and personalised, battle with the PM over Britain's future in Europe.

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Ex-Labour leader Mr Miliband warned that 1.5 million of the six million 18-24-year-olds eligible to vote are not registered, nor are a quarter of the eight million 25-35-year-olds.

'Today is a call to arms to all young people to register to vote. Let's be clear about the danger: a decision not to vote is a decision to let someone else decide your future.

'Young people can decide this referendum. If they don't use their vote, the danger is this referendum will be lost,' Mr Miliband was saying.

The ex-Labour leader insisted the Leave side offered a narrow, pessimistic future which pretended to be about national freedom.

'When the Leave campaign is asked about the future - future jobs, future opportunities, future growth - they have one answer: they just don't know.

'Those words should ring in the ears of every child, student and parent. Not knowing is not a path to prosperity, not knowing is the road to recession.

'Be in no doubt: if young people don't exercise their vote, this referendum will be lost and so will many of their futures.

'If young people don't want the Leave campaign to narrow the horizons of the world that they will live in, it is vital that young people register and vote,' the former Labour leader was saying.

Leave campaigner and Tory MP James Cleverly hit back, saying: 'Ed Miliband's cynical attempt to convince young people otherwise will fool no-one. After his failed efforts to court the youth vote via Russell Brand last year, you'd think he would know better.'

The move came as Mr Cameron said he would not reconsider comments that Mr Johnson, George Osborne and Theresa May were all figures who could step into his shoes when he steps down, as he has promised he will before the next general election.

The PM said: 'I wouldn't withdraw any of the things I've said. The Conservative Party is lucky to have big substantial figures within it and that's certainly the case. But on this one, I think he is on the wrong side.'

Meanwhile, prominent Leave campaigner and Tory MP Jacob Rees Mogg stood by a report by the Treasury select committee he is a member of which strongly criticised statements from both sides in the campaign.

And it said the Remain side's claim that families would be £4,300 a year worse off if Britain was outside the EU was 'likely to be misconstrued by voters' and had 'probably confused them'.

While the findings are embarrassing for both sides, the committee chairman, Tory MP Andrew Tyrie, said Vote Leave were guilty of 'by far the most serious' offence.

He called on them to repaint their battle bus, which has been touring the country with Boris Johnson and other prominent Out campaigners and carries the slogan: 'We send the EU £350 million a week - let's fund our NHS instead.'

However, Mr Rees Mogg told The Press Association: 'I care nothing about the bus. I am not concerned about charabancs. That is not at the heart of the debate.

'I have always used the net figure. What is far more shocking is that the Chancellor has been using a figure he knew would be misleading.'

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Ed Miliband warns Brexit could win the EU referendum if 1.5 million young people fail to register to vote